Quotes by Liz Truss - Page 2

Economics and finance is the final frontier for women; it's the last thing they will conquer because controlling finance is at the heart of everything in government.
Liz Truss /
Finance
Conquer
Controlling
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A UK-Australia trade deal won't just be a good thing, it'll be a great thing, for our businesses, for our consumers, for our workers and for our two great countries.
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Workers
Businesses
Countries
Good Thing
Great Thing
Just Be
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Britain is the home of economic freedom, with liberty guaranteed by the independence of our state institutions, and an absence of corruption assured by transparency.
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Independence
Absence
Assured
Corruption
Economic Freedom
Transparency
Guaranteed
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I had never met anyone of my own age that was a Tory, so going to university and seeing people who were Tories and who believed in what I believed in was an eye-opener.
Liz Truss /
Age People Never
Tories
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Trade is critical to us all - it ensures we have what we need to live, that the NHS gets the equipment it needs to save lives, and that developing countries can prosper.
Liz Truss /
Critical
Developing
Developing Countries
Equipment
Nhs
Trade
Countries
Prosper
Save
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I think we've got caught up in the weeds of Brexit, and... the approach has been to try and compromise and split the difference. And that to me is not what Brexit is about.
Liz Truss /
Approach
Caught
Compromise
Brexit
Difference
Split
Weeds
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When I travel around the country, I see great companies with new ideas and a can-do attitude. But too often they are in hand-to-hand and pen-to-paper combat with officialdom.
Liz Truss /
Attitude
Travel
Can Do
Combat
New Ideas
Companies
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Labour want to control all parts of the economy and society so that they can pursue the politics of envy. It would leave us all paying higher taxes and the economy in tatters.
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Economy
Envy
Higher
Labour
Pursue
Higher Taxes
Parts
Paying
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It's vital to our economic mission that we fight vested interests, and make sure our country's opportunities are open to everyone - big or small, north or south, man or woman.
Liz Truss /
Economic
Vested Interests
Interests
Mission
North
Opportunities
Vested
Vital
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Schools receive 12% more per student for those doing media studies or psychology than they do for those doing maths. You could change that around, made a premium on doing maths.
Liz Truss /
Premium
Psychology
Student
Per
Maths
Receive
Schools
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We don't know what's around the corner - and we must do everything to ensure we get our country's debts down, building our resilience so we don't repeat the mistakes of the past.
Liz Truss /
Resilience
Mistakes
Corner
Debts
Ensure
Repeat
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All of us in Parliament now have a responsibility to get on with the process of leaving the EU and securing a more prosperous future for Britain as an open, global, trading nation.
Liz Truss /
Parliament
Prosperous
Trading
Eu
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I think every woman in this country will understand what it means to be mansplained to. It happens in everyday life - you know, if you go into a shop, or you're talking about finance.
Liz Truss /
Finance
Everyday Life
Shop
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We are fighting a Labour Party whose avowed enemy is capitalist bosses, whose instinct is to see income as a common pool resource, and whose leading figures find profit morally repugnant.
Liz Truss /
Capitalist
Figures
Instinct
Labour Party
Pool
Profit
Avowed
Bosses
Repugnant
Resource
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I am delighted to be at the heart of this team of radical reformers in Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Nick Boles and many others. It's a team I believe will deliver the change Britain needs.
Liz Truss /
Delighted
Johnson
Radical
Nick
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The free market is fundamentally humane and democratic, driven by ideas and millions of individual choices about what to do with our money which defy those who benefit from the status quo.
Liz Truss /
Driven
Free Market
Humane
Status Quo
Defy
Fundamentally
Quo
Status
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When I left university I got a job with Shell on their graduate scheme. One of my roles was as a commercial manager for liquid natural gas shipping, project economics and contract negotiation.
Liz Truss /
Economics
Gas
Liquid
Natural Gas
Negotiation
Roles
University
Commercial
Contract
Project
Graduate
Scheme
Manager
Shell
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We're trendsetters, first to welcome brilliant inventions into our lives, from the microwave meal to Instagram. Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing freedom fighters.
Liz Truss /
Brilliant
Instagram
Our Lives
Welcome
Fighters
Inventions
Meal
Microwave
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Leaving the European Union really does give us a chance as a country to become more outward-looking, to become more competitive, and to deepen our links with our partners right across the world.
Liz Truss /
European Union
Links
Partners
Deepen
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Free-flow play is not compulsory, but there is a belief across lots of nurseries that it is. I have seen too many chaotic settings, where children are running around. There's no sense of purpose.
Liz Truss /
Belief
Chaotic
Compulsory
Purpose
Settings
Across
Lots
No Sense
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Britain is the ideas factory of the world and has huge potential to benefit from the next technological revolution. Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.
Liz Truss /
Britain
Enterprise
Free Enterprise
Innovation
Revolution
Benefit
Factory
Lies
Skilled
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If we just had an election which is a kind of desiccated calculation, obviously I think the Conservatives have the best economic plans, but it is about more than that. It is about the overall person.
Liz Truss /
Election
Plans
Calculation
Conservatives
Obviously
Overall
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From better access to American markets for our beef and lamb farmers, to cutting tariffs on dairy products like cheese, which are up to 17 per cent, there are significant opportunities for UK farming.
Liz Truss /
Access
Beef
Cheese
Cutting
Dairy
Farmers
Products
Significant
Cent
Per
Lamb
Markets
Opportunities
Uk
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Women are not going to start businesses because we tell them we don't have enough people of a certain group. People want to start businesses because it's a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.
Liz Truss /
Fulfilling
Enough People
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People won't want powers being handed back from bureaucrats in Brussels to be given to bureaucrats in Britain. Our aim should be to give the British people greater control of their lives in all regards.
Liz Truss /
Aim
Brussels
Bureaucrats
British People
Handed
Powers
Regards
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Taking control of our laws border and money, run not by a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats in Brussels but by a bunch of overpaid bureaucrats in Britain. That ladies and gentlemen is a dream worth fighting for.
Liz Truss /
Britain
Brussels
Bunch
Bureaucrats
Fighting
Border
Gentlemen
Ladies
Overpaid
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In order to retain our position as the dynamic duo of the world, it's vital that in the UK and US we keep opportunities open for new people and new ideas. And we can never allow our economies to get furred up.
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New Ideas
World People New
World Keep People
Duo
Dynamic
Economies
Retain
Uk
Vital
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Election campaigns always have to have colour and excitement and interest. People want to know about the details of politicians, what they like doing in their spare time, about their families. I think that's human.
Liz Truss /
Campaigns
Colour
Details
Election
Excitement
Spare Time
Time Always People
Spare
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With Anglo-American capitalism increasingly under attack, those who believe in the power of free markets and enterprise to create wealth and social progress must stand up and be counted and champion our way of life.
Liz Truss /
Social Progress
Life Power Believe
Counted
Free Markets
Increasingly
Stand Up
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Traditionally, Conservatives have argued that low taxes are a route to self-determination. I agree. It is vital we keep taxes low and the size of the state in check, to allow people to spend more of their own money.
Liz Truss /
Self Determination
Money People More
Money Keep People
Argued
Check
Conservatives
Route
Vital
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Kitchen-table start-ups and local entrepreneurs will find they have major new opportunities opened to them, as they gain easier and quicker access for their goods and services into one of the world's largest markets.
Liz Truss /
Access
Easier
Goods
World Will New
Entrepreneurs
World New Will
Gain
Major
Largest
Local
New Opportunities
Opened
Opportunities
Quicker
Services
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I love Britain. It really worries me, the prospect of Ed Miliband propped up by Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP and what that could do to our country. It's absolutely right that we highlight to voters that potential risk.
Liz Truss /
Britain
Risk
Voters
Absolutely
Love Me Country
Highlight
Propped
Worries
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All of my parents' friends worked in public sector jobs. The teachers at my school were quite often card-carrying members of the Labour Party and it just was not part of the culture to approve of what the government was doing.
Liz Truss /
Jobs
Labour
Labour Party
Members
Public Sector
Teachers
Approve
Sector
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Britain and the US remain the Wild West for ideas, where pioneers push each other towards ever greater heights in the white heat of free enterprise. No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.
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Ashamed
Free Enterprise
Heat
Pioneers
Wild West
Fears
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Opinion polls show that millennials are focused, aspirational and entrepreneurial. The young people I meet want more freedom - to start firms, keep more of what they earn, and move to areas with opportunities without paying a fortune.
Liz Truss /
Entrepreneurial
Focused
Millennials
Opinion
Opinion Polls
Polls
Area
Earn
Paying
Young People
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I feel I'm fortunate compared with a lot of parents in being able to afford a nanny but, you know, it's expensive. When we've looked into trying to find a full daycare place in London it's just been impossible. You just cannot get one.
Liz Truss /
Expensive
Fortunate
Impossible
London
Afford
Compared
Looked
Nanny
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As Chief Secretary to the Treasury, I aim to be the disrupter in chief; I want to challenge those who aim to block change, stop development and restrict success. I want to challenge the caution that strangles risk-takers and go-getters.
Liz Truss /
Aim
Block
Caution
Development
Secretary
Treasury
Challenge
Chief
Restrict
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If John McDonnell nationalised whole industries, they would be quickly taken over by bureaucrats more concerned about their careers than about customers. Except this time, there will be no choice and nowhere to turn when things go wrong.
Liz Truss /
Bureaucrats
Careers
Nowhere
Industries
No Choice
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When I started my ministerial job I brought my daughters into the Department, due to last-minute childcare complications. We had meetings throughout the day and the girls had to play outside the office while mummy went to 'boring' meetings.
Liz Truss /
Childcare
Department
Last Minute
Meetings
Mummy
Daughters
Complications
Due
Ministerial
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I didn't become a Tory just to become part of a managerial group who wanted to run the country... I want to see popular free-market Conservatism where barriers are broken down, people have got more opportunities but keep more of their own money.
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Barriers
Broken
Conservatism
Money Keep People
Money Country People
Group
Managerial
Popular
Opportunities
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Every pound that comes into the Exchequer was earned by someone through hard work, and could have been used for a new car, a holiday or a treat for the children. It means I have a responsibility to make sure that all public spending is justified.
Liz Truss /
Hard Work
Holiday
Justified
New Car
Responsibility
Spending
Earned
Pound
Treat
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Tyrrells crisps are one of the top sellers in France. I don't know if you've tasted crisps in other countries, but I really think British crisps are world leaders. I went to China and they told me there is only one type of potato available there.
Liz Truss /
Available
British
China
France
Other Countries
Sellers
Type
World Me Know
Tasted
Countries
Potato
World Leaders
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We want a fully comprehensive trade deal that reflects our deep, ongoing relationship, the friendship between our two countries, the fact that Australians want to come and live and work in Britain, and Brits want to come and live and work in Australia.
Liz Truss /
Friendship
Relationship
Australia
Britain
Comprehensive
Ongoing
Countries
Deal
Fully
Reflects
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In other countries you can do high-level maths or general maths, whereas we've just got all-or-nothing. We need to give people another option from 16-18. Not everyone is going to want to become a rocket scientist but that doesn't mean that maths isn't extremely useful.
Liz Truss /
Other Countries
Scientist
Useful
Countries
Option
Extremely
Maths
Rocket
Whereas
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From the coffee bars of Camden to the gin joints of Norfolk - across Britain, a revolution is brewing. And no, it's not John McDonnell's bitter socialist hooch. It's a generation growing up with an entirely different view of the world - free thinking, optimistic and hungry for success.
Liz Truss /
Optimistic
Bars
Bitter
Britain
Camden
Coffee
Gin
Growing Up
Hungry
Norfolk
Revolution
Socialist
Thinking
Across
Free
Different View
Entirely
Generation
John
View
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As Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese - they all want us to get Brexit done so that we can begin negotiations and forge new relationships that will open up new markets for British businesses, create jobs and attract new investment.
Liz Truss /
Jobs
British
Done
Investment
Secretary
Trade
Waiting
Begin
American
Attract
Australians
Open
Brexit
Businesses
Create
World New Will
Forge
Japanese
Markets
Negotiations
Relationships
See
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We've been prepared to make the arguments for lowering corporation tax, which is all about encouraging risk takers, encouraging entrepreneurs, and I observe that for the vast majority of the Labour government we had a top rate of 40 per cent income tax. It's now higher, and I think we should look to get to a simpler, lower tax system.
Liz Truss /
Encouraging
Higher
Income
Income Tax
Labour
Majority
Prepared
Rate
Risk
Tax System
Tax
Cent
Corporation
Vast
Entrepreneurs
Takers
Per
Labour Government
Lower
Observe
Simpler
Vast Majority
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